Industry Readiness Training

This resource includes an overview of the Introduction to Mechatronics lesson and the learning objectives for this lesson. To download the overview, click on the link above with the correct file type. 

Upon successful completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Distinguish among and explain the operation of simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.
• Use the concept of mechanical advantage to calculate mechanical advantage and its tradeoffs.
• Recognize the frequent everyday presence of rotary-to-linear conversion and use some of its terminology. 
• Work with different kinds of cams and as you change settings, record data and observe the effects of those changes.
• Work with a four-bar mechanism, observing how different settings affect functionality.